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Job overview
🌟 Join Home 1st as a Band 3 Rehabilitation Assistant – Help to Shape the Future of Community Care!
Home 1st Planned Care is looking for a motivated, compassionate Band 3 Rehabilitation Assistant to join our forward‑thinking team in Milton Keynes. This is more than a job. It’s a chance to be part of an innovative service that helps people stay independent, avoid unnecessary hospital admissions, and return home safely after illness or injury. You’ll be at the heart of community and inpatient rehabilitation, working alongside Physiotherapists, Occupational Therapists, Nurses, and a vibrant multidisciplinary team.
Why You’ll Love This Role
* You’ll support patients to achieve meaningful independence – the kind that transforms lives.
* You’ll deliver therapeutic activities and rehab programmes designed by registered professionals.
* You’ll work with the reassurance of guidance and support from registered professionals.
* You may have the opportunity to rotate between different Home 1st Therapy pathways, keeping your work stimulating and full of growth opportunities.
* You’ll collaborate with a network of professionals, helping plan safe and effective discharges that keep patient flow moving.
Contact
Contact Nicola MacKinnon, Team Manager for Therapy In‑Patient Pathway, on 01908 724999. Your next step starts here.
Please note: This vacancy does not meet the criteria for Skilled Worker sponsorship, unless you meet the criteria by temporary exemption from current changes to immigration rules put in force on 22/07/2025. Separate provisions are applied to workers who have been sponsored and held continuously Skilled Worker visa since prior to 04/04/2024. If you don’t meet the Transitional Provision we are unable to consider your application unless you can provide documentary evidence of your right to work in the United Kingdom. If you believe you are eligible for sponsorship or already hold a valid right to work in the UK, please ensure you provide full details of your immigration status in the Pre‑Screening Immigration section of your application form.
Please note role eligibility also depends on whether the role meets the salary threshold for the relevant occupational code (SOC CODE).
Clinical Duties
* Provide physiotherapy, occupational therapy and nursing interventions as part of a specific treatment plan agreed and documented by physiotherapist, occupational therapist or nurse.
* Undertake tasks in delivering patient care, rehabilitation or social care as directed by the service professionals in a range of settings.
* Work independently in the designated clinical area or patients’ home following an agreed treatment plan.
* Provide support work with patients individually or in a group with or without supervision of a physiotherapist or occupational therapist.
* Follow departmental and trust guidelines for obtaining consent and use diplomacy and gentle encouragement to enhance patient compliance in treatment programmes.
* Work with family members, carers and support workers to enable them to carry out treatment programmes planned by the physiotherapist, occupational therapist or nurse.
* Manage own workload allocated by the physiotherapist, occupational therapist or nurse.
* Work as a member of the multidisciplinary team and liaise with the team effectively to ensure a co‑ordinated approach to patient care; attend meetings as delegated by the nurse, physiotherapist or occupational therapist.
* Maintain comprehensive and accurate records of work undertaken, including documenting in line with Trust and service standards.
* Attend in‑service training, clinical supervision and team meetings as required.
* Assist physiotherapist, occupational therapist or nurse with complex patients in their own home environment.
* Handle patients with mobility problems in an enabling way, using hoists, sliding sheets, wheelchairs, mobility aids, etc.
* Actively participate within the completion of Band 3 level competencies.
Effort
* Carry out interventions with patients with a variety of conditions, as directed by the AHP, with frequent episodes of low to moderate physical effort, and occasional episodes of moderate to intense physical effort on a daily basis (e.g. transferring patients, use of hoists, therapeutic handling technique positions and transporting patients in wheelchairs).
* Comply with the CNWL‑MK Manual Handling Policy and local therapeutic handling guidance at all times. Work may involve cramped conditions, such as next to the patient’s bed. Physical requirements include repetitive movements, standing / walking for the majority of the working day (intermittently involving bending, crouching, kneeling, twisting and crawling).
* Deal sensitively with patients, and carers, who may have high levels of anxiety, fear or aggression due to pain, limited mobility, frustration, terminal illness, dementia or neurological deficits, frequently on a daily basis.
* Handle occasional exposure to unpleasant working conditions (bodily fluids such as sputum, faeces, vomit, urine, blood and contagious conditions, and unsanitary home conditions).
* Use a moderate level of mental effort and concentration frequently during the day while assessing and treating patients, and fulfilling the documentation requirements of the job.
* Use emotional effort in the development of a therapeutic relationship with patients in difficult circumstances.
* Interact appropriately with patients and relatives who may be experiencing depression or poor prognosis, and facilitate intervention as directed by the clinician, using empathetic motivational skills.
Organisational Duties
* Maintain equipment, identifying defects, hazards and equipment failure and notifying the relevant manager.
* Manage own caseload and work only within own scope of competence.
* Maintain up to date electronic diary and outcomes of all appointments as required by the service.
* Maintain the safety of the designated clinical environment according to local policy and regulations and be aware of emergency procedures.
* Assist in risk assessments and comply with trust policies on incident reporting.
* Adhere to trust appraisal and performance review programme to identify personal development plans and training needs.
* Participate in data collection and statistics as directed.
* Attend mandatory and relevant training as and when required.
General Duties & Responsibilities
* Assist in simple administrative procedures as required by the Team Lead as part of everyday activity.
* Ensure effective communication with the nurse, physiotherapist or occupational therapist regarding treatment of individual patients.
* Comply with organisational and departmental policies and procedures.
* Perform general office tasks: photocopying, computer data input, filing and answering the telephone in a polite and courteous manner.
* Maintain accurate and comprehensive clinical records and all documentation processes (e.g. reporting incidents and near misses and clinical notes).
Personal Responsibility (Organisational Expectations)
1. Maintain the highest standards of care and service, taking responsibility not only for the care you personally provide but also for your wider contribution to the aims of your team and the NHS as a whole.
2. Be aware of and follow at all times the relevant National and Local codes of practice in relation to your role and function. If you are in a post that requires registration with a professional body, you are required to maintain that registration.
3. Protect the confidentiality of personal information that you hold unless doing so would put any one at risk of significant harm. Keep accurate and professional records and information about staff, patients and clinical care, using the document‑based and computer‑based systems in operation in the Trust.
4. Take reasonable care of Health and Safety at work for you, your team and others; ensure compliance with health and safety standards and legislation; attend all relevant Health and Safety mandatory training.
5. Take responsibility for attending and participating in all mandatory and essential training to ensure the safe and efficient functioning of the Trust and/or safety and wellbeing of other staff and the patients for whom you provide services.
6. Participate in the appraisal process on an annual basis, as a minimum, in accordance with the Personal Development Review Policy to explore and identify development needs.
7. Be familiar with and comply with Trust policies for infection prevention and control and hand hygiene to reduce the spread of healthcare‑associated infections. Attend mandatory training in Infection Prevention and Control and comply with all measures known to be effective.
8. Safeguard and promote the welfare of children and vulnerable adults by being aware of and working in accordance with statutory guidance and local policies and procedures.
9. Not discriminate against patients or staff, and adhere to equal opportunities and human rights legislation; act in ways that support equality, value diversity and respect human rights.
10. Abide by locally agreed policies and procedures and ensure you familiarise yourself with such policies, which can be found on the Trust intranet. Staff who cannot access the intranet should contact their line manager.
Person Specification
Qualifications
* Care Certificate or willingness to work towards it.
* Full and current UK driving licence and provision of vehicle.
* Educated to GCSE standard.
Experience
* Work experience in health and social care setting.
* Therapy background in Community/Acute setting, with transferable skills.
* Autonomous working.
* Understanding of rehabilitation and MDT working.
Knowledge
* Understands and promotes equality, diversity and human rights.
* Understanding of confidentiality in the workplace.
* Demonstrates an understanding of various pathologies.
Key Skills and Responsibilities
* Ability to work under pressure.
* Ability to organise self, demonstrate good time management.
* Health & safety and risk awareness.
* Awareness of limitations and when to seek advice to solve clinical difficulties.
* Develop the skills to work autonomously in community setting.
* Willing to develop own skills and competencies within the MDT.
* Ability to recognise the deterioration of a patient.
Personal Development
* Ability to work as part of a team and under supervision of registered staff.
* Ability to establish rapport with people who may be anxious/worried.
* Ability to provide feedback information.
Use of Artificial Intelligence (AI)
AI can be used as a support tool, not a replacement for the applicant’s own work. Applications must remain personal, accurate and reflective of the candidate’s real experience. AI‑generated content must not misrepresent skills, qualifications or experience. Over reliance on AI‑generated content is discouraged and may diminish the applicant's chances of success.
We monitor applications for any behaviour that could create an unfair advantage, and we check all references carefully. You are likely to be tested on your experience at interview, so be honest and make sure all the information in your application is correct. Please note that the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) is prohibited during the interview process.
The successful applicant may have contact with patients or service users. As an NHS Trust we strongly encourage and support vaccination as this remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and patients and service users when working in our healthcare settings.
* Due to the high response levels we receive for some vacancies, we may expire any of them prior to the advertised closing date and advise you to submit your application as soon as possible.
* Applications from job seekers who require sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. Before submitting your application and to avoid disappointment please check that you are eligible under the UKVI points‑based system.
* Our Agenda for Change employment contracts are subject to a contractual 13‑week probationary period.
* If you are offered a job, information will be transferred into the national NHS Electronic Staff Records system.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Name Nicola MacKinnon
Job title Team Manager for Therapy In‑Patient Pathway
Email address n.mackinnon@nhs.net
Telephone number 01908 724999.
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